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Show I SPORTUGHT Cadets Victims of 'Win' Disease i By GRANTLAND RICE Here is the Bible's finest plea A line that can never be turned or budged Write this down for them all to see "Judge not, that ye be not judged"! The Glory (?) of Winning Possibly one of the worst obsessions obses-sions connected with competitive sport is what one might call "The glory of winning." There is very little actual glory in winning. The glory from a game not only lies in giving 100 per cent of all you have but in the contest itself. Yet football foot-ball coaches, especially, have been almost completely overwhelmed by this hell-bent desire for victory. footbaU players in all other American Ameri-can colleges would have been able to come through safely and clean, as things were set up. The West Point System We still say that any system that involves so many cadets in deadly serious trouble through so many years must be wrong. When the first West Point news broke there were only 90 mentioned. As we understand it, there are possibly pos-sibly 200 involved, not counting the other hundreds who go back through some 10, 12 or many more years. These kids who come to West Point are as clean and as decent as any kids the country has. They come to a so-called honor system that has been broken and violated through a decade, or longer. They were entirely wrong. But they were not cheating for profit. They were out of line to stay with a tough job, that too often ends in death or mutilation. There isn't a better bet-ter football coach nor a more honorable honora-ble man in the country coun-try than Earl Red Blaik. But Red Blaik, like so many, many other coaches, coach-es, was caught in this swirl of victory importance. He was caught in a system, West Point and Annapolis are no baby-sitter enterprises. They give you 17 hours a day of rough going-over, going-over, mental and physical. When you throw in football work extremely ex-tremely important to the Academy and a wearing test you add greater pressure. Few can take it in such doses. You can't also ask these men or boys to be stool pigeons and snoopers. - The only honor test worthwhile affects only the individual involved There is still very much we must hear from the baffled and confused Pentagon group. Many at West Point have failed in a number of respects. But don'1 forget that West Point's higher com' mand has failed even more dismally and so has the ruling body at thf Pentagon. Many Robinson Angles There are many angles in the Robinson-Turpin affair. Just hov, much fighting ability did Robinson'! Paris invasion remove from hi: system? Robinson has been fightins many years. How far back has h gone? Just how good is Turpin? Was it Turpin' s ability or Robin son's fading that brought about the result? The majority feeling we have rur across to date is that Robinson wil be another fighter in September. Few thought John L. Sullivan was slipping when he met Jim Corbett It has been that way ever since The champ can do no wrong unti he's licked. Grantl.nd Rict not of Wn mJk; mg, a system that covers the country. Win win win, and win at any price, is an alumni slogan win or get fired. This covers the football map north and south, east and west. The coaches know the answer. an-swer. So do the players who are recruited, proselyted, pampered and paid for in many cases not even forced to attend classes. Today it has gotten so that over a winning football team there is too often a heavier cloud or shadow of scandal than the losers know. "How much did they cost?" "How much do they get?" After a debacle around 1941 or 11942, when Army teams were I crushed, Army (I mean Army (Brass) decided to get a winner. !Army did. I was never impressed with Army's war teams, gathered, as Navy's were from civilian col-lieges, col-lieges, meeting 17-year-old kids or ;4F's. Both Army and Navy went completely haywire those war years. I think they know it now. ' But in the desire to have winning win-ning teams, Army, and possibly Navy, brought in stars who couldn't pass the scholastic test. So they cribbed. It wasn't nice. But I wouldn't have agreed to the Army honor code that Included In-cluded stool-pigeon work and snooping. Army's system was 100 per cent 'wrong. Any system that involves from 90 to 200 cadets in any such snarl is entirely wrong. I don't believe 10 per cent of the i |